[phamilton]

Not really. Python primitives are smaller (24 bytes). Python strings are 37 + 1 byte per character. Python objects are 72 bytes. Python classes are 104 bytes. (Got these numbers playing around with sys.getsizeof in the python console.)

Primitives are a bit bigger in ruby, but they aren't really primitives anyway (everything is an object).

[stcredzero]

Python is another offender!

[phamilton]

What languages are you referring to than? Perl and PHP are really the only others that are sort of in the same class as Ruby and Python.

[stcredzero]

Smalltalk, for one.